Matt Martin: Check out the latest additions to GoErie.com

I'd sooner hibernate through this month and wake in mid-April to the promise of spring, but that wasn't one of my available options.

Instead I've recently been caught up in a flurry of activity that's resulted in significant additions to GoErie.com and its digital kin.

For starters, there was the launch this week of a theme page built around coverage of the inland port project proposed for Erie County.

At GoErie.com/inlandport, you'll find the latest news articles, opinion columns, videos, photos and graphics associated with the plan, which would mean, by one account, hundreds of millions of dollars in new investments in the Erie region, as well as new employers and new jobs.

The plan also could lead to opinion-polarizing additions to the community, such as an iron-smelting plant near Cranesville, an import-export facility on Erie's east bayfront and a rail terminal in Harborcreek Township.

No matter which side of the debate you're on, make GoErie.com/inlandport your first stop for the latest on the project.

On the consumer front, we've added weekly ad circulars to the offerings available at GoErie.com, the GoErie app and the GoErie mobile site, mobile.goerie.com.

At GoErie.com/weeklyads, you'll be able to view the digital equivalent of print advertising inserts from a national distribution program. You can view ads by categories, zoom in, search by percentage discount and print coupons, among other features.

We've also upgraded the tool used to pose our long-standing question of the day.

The new What Do You Think poll is visible on the right side of the GoErie.com home page and the Today's Erie Times-News page (GoErie.com/etn).

Our former poll presented the results of the question once you answered, and you'd see those same results every time you returned to GoErie until a new question was put up. Now, once you answer a question, you'll be presented with two more questions, then shown a path to the current results for all three, and the opportunity to engage in some more answering if you so desire.

One more recent addition is the Erie In 60 video series. Online reporter Sarah Stemen heads out each week to find the stories, moments, places and characters that make Erie unique, and tells those stories in no more than 60 seconds. So far she has touched on bumper stickers, comic books, winter weather and Valentine's Day; watch them all in four minutes at GoErie.com/video.

MATT MARTIN, managing editor/digital, can be reached at 870-1704 or by e-mail at matt.martin@timesnews.com. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNmmartin.